no fooling

[beccaelizabeth]

I dislike April Fools.
Practical jokes tend to rely on some shared sense of the absurd. Things are too impossible to ever happen, therefore if you believe them you are fooled, you are a fool.
I read Fortean Times, and the Oddly Enough news sections. I read regular news sometimes too. I live in the world. I have an autistic sibling and know people that know pshrinks.
There is nothing, absolutely nothing, in the world so absurd as to be impossible. Nada. Zip.
There are things that are kind of out of character, but people change their minds for motives known only to them. Out of character happens. A lot.
So who is the 'fool', the person reading the article and taking it for true, or the person writing it and thinking it never could be?

Which isn't to say I'm being all taken in by strange news today. The Forteana list is doing a Loof Lirpa roundup, and that is the only place I'm reading right now, so no worries. And I intend to ignore pretty much everything everyone says all day, unless/until they say it still tommorrow. But that's the thing- on the web things get said on time delay, and mail will turn up at a time that is April 2 to me but not the rest of the world, and web pages get stored and passed on and persist nearly forever. And then what to believe?

Thank goodness for snopes.com

Comments

[sparklebutch.livejournal.com]

I *despise* April's 1st.